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I think you're referring to deionized water. Deionized (DI) water is water that where all ions are removed. This is not safe to drink. Distilled water is boile
by discordance 7y ago
I think you're referring to deionized water. Deionized (DI) water is water that where all ions are removed. This is not safe to drink.
Distilled water is boiled and recondensed water, which leaves you with pure H2O (no minerals etc). It's safe to drink but pretty bland.
- dwighttk 7y agoOutside of hydroxide and hydronium, which ions are left with “pure H2O (no minerals etc)”? And DI water gets hydronium and hydroxide pretty quickly (if they ever go away.) H2O just breaks down into OH- and H3O+ on its own (as far as I know)
- hollerith 7y agoI agree: in fact the deionization process adds one hydronium or hydroxide for every (mineral) ion it removes: >Deionization is a chemical process that uses specially manufactured ion-exchange resins, which exchange hydrogen and hydroxide ions for dissolved minerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water#Deionization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water#Deionization In other words, if deionized water is unhealthful because of a lack of ions, distilled water is, too, because it doesn't contain any more ions than deionized water does.
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